King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Paperback is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Paperback is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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‘All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novel’ Robert Harris, author of Fatherland Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of the Belgians took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. King Leopold’s Ghost is the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
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